Rapid progress in space exploration and technology led to the third UNISPACE conference, UNISPACE III, that was held from 19 to 30 July 1999. Attended by 97 Member States, 9 UN specialized agencies and 15 international intergovernmental organizations, UNISPACE III created a blueprint for the peaceful uses of outer space in the 21st century.
UNISPACE III outlined a wide variety of actions to protect the global environment and manage natural resources; increase the use of space applications for human security, development and welfare; protect the space environment; and increase developing countries' access to space science and its benefits.
Five years after the last major international conference on outer space, UNISPACE III, the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) reviewed the implementation of the 33 recommendations of the Third United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.
See the implementation of UNISPACE III recommendations in the UNISPACE III+5 report (A/59/174):